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UN Deputy Humanitarian Chief Kyung-wha Kang has called on the international community to refocus attention on the crisis in the Central African Republic (CAR) and the increasingly complex situation in neighbouring Cameroon.
“We must regain broad donor attention,” she told a press briefing at...

UN Deputy Humanitarian Chief Kyung-wha Kang and UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons, Dr Chaloka Beyani are in the Central African Republic (CAR) this week to see first-hand the continued, horrific legacy of the violence that has gripped the country since 2013.
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UN Humanitarian Chief Valerie Amos and Academy Award winning actor and UNESCO Special Envoy for Peace and Reconciliation, Forest Whitaker, have visited South Sudan in an effort to refocus global attention on the conflict-riven country.
“We wanted to see for ourselves the day-to-day impact of the...

Mona Folkesson is in Malawi as a member of the UN Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC) team. The team deployed in mid-January at the Government’s request in an effort to generate an accurate picture of the impact of the floods that have swept across the south of the country. Mona wrote this...

When the crisis began in eastern Ukraine in 2014, people were reluctant to leave their homes in Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts. Some people chose to live with distant relatives and friends elsewhere in Ukraine.
Fast forward to the tenth month of the crisis – close to 1 million people have now fled the...